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Re: Bollie Family in Minnesota

CarolMcWilliams44 — 2011-05-01 20:52:48Z

I have not heard from you since I sent my e-mail address. Perhaps you have sent to that address and have used a lower case L instead of the numbers: one, zero, zero, zero. I would like to send you a copy of my Bollie and Lyngstad family trees. I think I could send them as attachments if I had your e-mail address.

I do have the following information. In this info. b stands for born and c stands for christening, or Lutheran baptism.

Kund Edvard b. 24 May, c. 12 June 1859 Kvernes parish
Peder Johan b. 1 Mar, c. 1 April 1861 Kvernes parish
Peder Johan b. 27 Jan, c. 6 April 1863 Kvernes parish
Kornelius b. 20 Aug, c. 24 Sep 1865 Kvernes parish
Ane Johanna b. 30 Aug, c. 6 Oct 1867 Kvernes parish
Ingebor Anna b. 11 Dec 1869, c. 30 Jan 1870 Kvernes parish

Do not think it strange that there are two children with the same name. Often, when a child died, the next child is given the same name. These are all children of Johan Knudsen and Pernilla Pedersdatter.

The two additional children that I found on the 1880 Census are Julia b. 1872 in Minnesota and Anders born in 1877 in Minnesota.

You have Andora as the last child, that would be a female. My info. says Anders, which would be a male. You will probably need to do more research to figure that out.

Carol

Re: Bollie Family in Minnesota

CarolMcWilliams44 — 2011-04-24 13:13:29Z

Ny grandfather came to Minnesota about 1904. He settled in St. Paul and then in 1910 he went back to Norway and married grandma who had been waiting for him. They lived in St. Paul for a while and some children were born there, including my father. Then they moved to Chippewa county Minnesota where they raised the family on a farm. Later, grandma and grandpa retired and lived in Benson, Minnesota.

Here is my e mail address: mcw1000@aol.com Notice that 1000 is in numbers, not letters. I have recently made some charts of grandma and grandpa's lines. I gave each family a number and a letter. All of grandpa's lines are numbers followed by a b (for Bollie) and grandma's lines are a number followed by a h (for Halaas). I have done some descendancy research also. So maybe our lines will tie together at some point.

My husband's family, who are not Norwegian at all, lived in the Red River Valley. Beautiful place, very flat, but I like flat. They were farmers also.

Carol

Re: Bollie Family in Minnesota

andersenmike — 2011-04-24 12:37:45Z

Hi Carol,

My email is mike.andersen@cox.net

Small world as you already have met Jonny. I can send you my Bollie line. None of the male line lives today but there are a number of descendants from the female line. Hegre and Engelstad are the surnames for those lines.

Is your Bollie line from the same area of Minnesota? My Bollie line first arrived in Minnesota and settled in Goodhue county but quickly moved north to the Red River valley.

R/

Mike

Re: Bollie Family in Minnesota

CarolMcWilliams44 — 2011-04-23 23:54:11Z

Yes, Jonny Lyngstad has already contacted me. He is currently completing the bygdebok for the area that includes Bollie. I have done a lot of research in the area of Bollie and Halaas. Those are the farms my grandparents came from. Are you aware that Norway has already put many of the actual parish registers on the internet and they are available for free? They are located at Digitalarkivet.

Some people from Eide church moved to North Dakota in the area of Carrington. One of my grandmother's third cousins moved there and used the name Halaas. They are buried at Kvernes church in Carrington.

My grandparents had seven children that lived to adulthood and so I have a lot of cousins. Most of them live in Minnesota. My sister Doris lives in Fredricksburg, Virginia. She has a copy of Eideboka Bind 2. That is the one that tells about the area around Halaas farm.

Jonny Lyngstad has given me a lot of information about my ancestors that lived in Norway, including one that confessed on his death bed to killing eight people. He is my most interesting ancestor so far.

I am half Norwegian, and half Swedish and a quarter Finn. I know that doesn't add up correctly. My Swedish grandmother was born in Finland. The Finns had multiple surnames like the Norwegians. My grandfather changed his name to Lee because he didn't like being called a "bully". (That is the way it is pronounced in Norway).

I have a map copied from a book about Kvernes parish. I could send you a copy if I had your address. I do not have the map on the computer, just on paper.

Carol

Re: Bollie Family in Minnesota

andersenmike — 2011-04-23 16:23:31Z

Hi Carol,

I would very much like to compare the Bollie in Norway that is the home of your family and the Bollie for my family. I suspect they might be the same. If they are, then I have a genealogist in Norway that I want to introduce you to. He has compiled several books on various families that are from the Bollie area and who left for America.

My Bollie line settled in the Red River valley of Minnesota in the area of Gatzke, MN. If fact, the name of the town comes from the maiden name of one of my Bollie ancestors wife. I tried for years to find the Bollie line in Norway but never had any luck. While visiting the archives in Oslo I had a researcher help me - she thought the Bollie name might have been a farm name. She was right. There in the 1860 Norwegian census were the very folks that left Norway and went to America. The last name in Norway was Knudson. I suspect a number of different families that left took farm names or whatever when they came over.

The gent in Norway you might want to contact is Jonny Lyngstad and his email is jonny-l@online.no

Please send me your information on the Bollie location. My family farm named Bollie is located in the Kvaernaes area of Norway.

If yours and mine are the same location, I bet if you go back far enough there will be a common ancestor.

R/
Mike

Re: Bollie Family in Minnesota

CarolMcWilliams44 — 2011-04-22 16:32:36Z

As far as I know I am not related to you, but my grandfather was born at Bolli in Norway. If you are interested in knowing the location of Bollie let me know. Some second cousins came to Minnesota for a visit. They had a picture of the Bollie hill. Bollie means rounded hill in Norwegian. I also have a map of the area since both of my grandparents came from there. I also know how to find ancestors on the original Norwegian records which are on the internet and are free to use.

Bollie Family in Minnesota

andersenmike — 2005-09-23 02:49:51Z

Looking for any living relatives to John K. Bollie and Pernilla Bollie who came to Gatzke Minnesota from Norway late 1871. In Norway the family name was Knudson but changed to the farm name when they left. They had children Knud J. Bollie, Peder Bollie, Anne J. Bollie, Cornelius Bollie, Ingeborg Bollie, Julia Bolie and Andora Bollie.

Some of the Bollie family is known to have lived for a time in North Dakota - may still be there today.

Julia Bollie is my GGrandmother.

Bollie Family in Minnesota

andersenmike — 2005-09-23 02:49:51Z

Looking for any descendants of:

Clifford Johan Bollie and his wife Clara Joesephine Christianson

Cornelius Bollie

Mathilda Bollie and her husband Ole Thomas Hegre

Andora Bollie

Anne Johansdatter Bollie - might be listed as Anne Bollie

Peder or Peter Bollie

Looking for what happened to Ida C. Bollie and her mother Amanda R. Bollie after 1930. They lived in Rochester Minnesota working as servant and cook in a diet kitchen there.